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Healthcare error is cited as a major contributing factor to the death rate in the United States. A majority of these errors result from incomplete, inaccurate, or missing data. Moreover, these problems of data also have a huge financial impact. In 2010, healthcare costs in the U.S. accounted for 17% of GDP (2.2 trillion dollars). It is projected that by …

Early adopters of technology are afforded many benefits, but they also run the risk of encountering many consequences. Seeing opportunity where others see risk, visionaries are able to adopt and adapt new technologies to their business to gain a competitive advantage. This process isn’t anything new; it has been occurring throughout time. Abraham Lincoln, a visionary of extraordinary proportions, was …

Introduction Technology is frequently used as a tool through which healthcare providers and their IT departments can monitor and improve the business and personal performance of every aspect of their organization. For example, an analytics program that is deployed to examine a patient population’s medical data can then become the starting point for a provider’s business intelligence program. The results …

The promise of data is huge – enormous clinical and financial rewards, less work, quantifying patient health habits and some form of IBM’s revered Watson supercomputer in every practice. The 2012 U.S. Hospital Health Data Analytics Market report revealed that 50% of U.S. hospitals are expected to have implemented health data analytics tools by 2016, which represents an annual compound …

Everyone is a patient at some time or another, and we all want good medical care. We assume that doctors are all medical experts and that there is good research behind all their decisions. Physicians are smart, well trained and do their best to stay up to date with the latest research. But they can’t possibly commit to memory all …

Who’s the most powerful superhero? Rishi Sikka, MD has a favorite and it’s one most people have probably never even heard of: Waverider. Sikka, senior vice president of clinical transformation at Advocate Healthcare, considers Waverider the most powerful superhero because he can surf the time stream and predict the future. Leading up to his presentation here at the Healthcare IT …

This is Part I of our three-part June 2015 print cover story on healthcare analytics. Part I focuses on the first steps of launching an analytics program. Part II focuses on intermediate strategies, and Part III focuses on the advanced stages of an analytics use. This first part may sting a bit: To those healthcare organizations in the beginning stages …

Apple is part of a collective formed by IBM to develop new technology that will help health care companies analyze patient data collected from millions of wearable Apple devices. IBM on Monday unveiled Watson Health Cloud, a cloud-based platform that will allow health researchers to not only store and share and patient data but provide access to IBM’s data mining …

Doctors in London have stored 1,600 beating human hearts in digital form on a computer. The aim is to develop new treatments by comparing the detailed information on the hearts and the patients’ genes. It is the latest project to make use of advances in storing large amounts of information. The study is among a wave of new “big data” …

In August 2014, UK prime minister David Cameron announced £300m government funding for a four-year project to map 100,000 people’s genomes by 2017. This will be undertaken through a partnership between a government-owned organisation, Genomics England, set up in 2013, and US biotechnology firm Illumina. The aim of the project is to use big data and genetics to develop personalised …

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